News Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation

[Ironalice]

Interviewed aboard the Monsters of Rock Cruise where he is playing with side project British Lion, 70-year-old Harris said: “It seems like next year Maiden are not going to do, if anything… anything at all.

“So I might go out and do some festivals next year with British Lion. When I get back with the lads, the Maiden lads that is, I just want to make sure that that is what everyone wants – to take the year off."
“It seems like it is but I just wanted to double check that everyone is up for that. I mean, I wasn’t particularly, so we’ll see if there’s any others that…
I just think at our age you’ve got to keep going. I’m scared to stop, if I’m honest. But we’ll see. It looks like we’re going to take the year off and if that’s the case, I don’t want to sit around twiddling my thumbs.”


https://hotmetalmag.com/steve-harris-says-he-opposes-maiden-taking-a-year-off/


Change of mind in 2027 perhaps?

 

[Hendrike]

See the interview thread.
I just had this idea:
The announcement of the 2027 tour hiatus was always just a marketing ploy to sell more tickets.
Now they need to start laying the groundwork for backtracking.
Here in the forum, some people always mention how far in advance a tour has to be organized, about 1.5 years.
Then it’s naive to think they’d just sit down in the summer and decide on a Maiden tour for 2027.

 

[OutwardFeller]

I still have nightmares. What a way to ruin a perfect instrumental section!

I remember it ruining the atmosphere of the song so much. Very much like Bruce not beiing able to shut up during the slow solo section on Stranger in 23/24.

 

[srfc]

I still have nightmares. What a way to ruin a perfect instrumental section!

He could have still done the pantomime with the flames without saying anything and it would have been fine

 

[GhostofCain]

He could have still done the pantomime with the flames without saying anything and it would have been fine

I wholeheartedly agree.